Maria Isabel Perez Ramos is a doctoral researcher at the Environmental Humanities Laboratory (EHL) at the Swedish Royal Institute of Technology (KTH). She is a member of the research group GIECO (Grupo de Investigación en Ecocrítica). She has a BA in English and American Language and Literature and a Master’s diploma, both from the University of León, Spain, and previous research stays include the University of New Mexico, King’s College London, and the University of California, Berkeley. Her main academic interests are Chicano literature, the US South West, ecocriticism, and environmental justice. In April/May 2014, Maria participated in the joint European Association for the Study of Literature, Culture, and the Environment (EASLCE) and the Nordic Network for Interdisciplinary Environmental Studies (NIES) conference “Framing Nature: Signs, Stories and Ecologies of Meaning” (University of Tartu), with a presentation entitled “A minor frame? How ethnic minorities ‘frame’ the environment through writing: the US South West, a case study.” She also organized and participated in the workshop “Challenging the Status Quo: Research, writing and activism,” with Rob Nixon as guest speaker (KTH, April 2014), and took part in the ASLE-UKI Biennial conference “Ecological Encounters: Agency, Identity, Interactions” (University of Surrey, August 2013), where she presented the paper “Identity of absence: Chicanos and the US South West’s identities revisited.”